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ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 12. N:0 15. 



39. Hamitermes latidens n. sp. 



Soldier (Text Fig. 43 a, 44). Body small, with dark ab- 

 domen and light yellow head. 



Head small, rounded behind and at the sides, cönvex 

 on the summit, slightly sloping down in the front, with 

 scattered hairs; clypeus short, rounded at the sides, broadly 

 emarginate in front, thus forming protruding, rounded ante- 

 rior angles, jaws very short and sharply curved, very broad 

 at the base, with a very broad and large, obtuse, triangulär, 

 median toot, antennse 14-jointed; basal joint twice as long 



Text Fig. 43. a Head of soldier of Hamitermes latidens Mjöb. n. sp. 

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and broad as the 2nd, 3nd shorter, tapering to the base, 

 4th shorter than 3rd, the smallest of all, 5th and following 

 gradually longer, the two apical joints twice as long as 

 broad; prothorax ridged in front, rounded on the sides; legs 

 of moderate size; abdomen elongate, rounded, pellucid, showing 

 the dark content of the intestines. 



Measurements: Length of body with jaws 4 mm, length 

 of head with jaws 1,6 5 mm, length of head without jaws 1,4 1 

 mm, breadth of head 0,9 5 mm, length of prothorax 0,3 mm, 

 breadth of prothorax 0,59 mm, breadth of abdomen 1,4 mm. 



Worker. Body narrow, whitish, elongate, head light 

 yellowish. 



